I’m just curious - for those of you who submitted their SIR at the last minute, or those of you who didn’t bother to decline admission, did you get a last minute reminder? We didn’t get anything. No big deal, my S committed to UCB, but I found it strange and lacking in commitment that there was no communication at all over the last month. The other UCs and other schools sent reminders and other communications.
Do you mean from Davis specifically?
Davis specifically
@ProfessorPlum168 Why would anyone need a reminder to submit their SIR to a school that they’re serious about?
A lot of people wait until the last minute to make a decision. Cmon.
If a school that has accepted you gives no communication it’s not a good sign. UCSB sent out plenty of communication emails, including tour info, assigning a Admissions officer and invitations to talk about classes. Zippo from Davis other than Decision Day and a meeting in Oakland. That was a month ago.
You might not be able to get a response from an incoming UCD freshman given the initial acceptance season is over. I was accepted from the waitlist a few years ago, and when I didn’t SIR immediately, I was sent reminder emails about when my deadline was, information on orientation, etc.
I think it was unusual for your son not to get one. If you son SIR’d early to UCB, it’s possible other UC’s were informed of her decision and Davis opted not to bombard her with reminder emails. I know at least UC Merced uses information about whether a student has been rejected by the other UC’s to send out additional acceptances. I don’t know how likely this is, but it may be a possibility.
Or it could have been an error. My acceptance letter did not have my own name on it, and mistakes happen.
In either case, I don’t think this situation is the norm. UCD is usually on top of emails; I should know, I get like 20 a day.
@Panduhr thanks. My kid did commit to UCB early on once he got the acceptance from them, but I found it strange that UCSB for example sent a lot of correspondence in the last month. But nary a peep from UCD. Actually there was one single email, for the alumni scholarship. Maybe UCD is more efficient.
Why does it matter since your son already sir’d?
My son got a reminder from Davis dated 4/24 to SIR by May 1st. The admissions email was sent entitled Are you ready to be an Aggie? And another came on 4/25 from the Alumni email about applying for scholarships by May 1st. Not real last minute like UCSC on 4/30 though.
@ProfessorPlum168 Perhaps that may be the case. It seems liveonboca’s son received a reminder email, so I’m going to guess your son was an outlier case, or again, he already SIR’d to a school early on, indicating he probably did not need or want to consider other schools. And your son did receive two earlier emails? Did he attend either decision day or the meeting in Oakland? If he attended neither, then I can imagine the university would believe your son was not at all interested in attending.
My impression of this thread, whether you intended it or not, is that you want to know whether UC Davis is as prestigious or committed as UCSB and other schools because your son did not receive follow-up emails. I am biased because I attend UCD, but there is no need to make comparisons when your son is already set to attend a very good university. It’s time to relax and enjoy the rest of the last of his high school days.
@“aunt bea” this discussion matters to me for intellectual curiosity. Yes he did commit somewhere else early on. But since he didn’t withdraw his offers at the remaining schools, he also had every right to change his mind for whatever reason. If other UC universities, such as UCD seemingly in this case, knew about his commitment, it just makes me wonder about how independent each school is when it comes to making acceptances and/or waitlist acceptance decisions.
In the athletic world, you see kids “decommit” from schools all the time for all kinds of reasons. From a marketing perspective, if I were UCD I would have simply continued to send the letters until May 1. It’s not like it’s costing them any money to send those extra emails. If my kid thought the emails were too annoying, he would have simply then withdrawn his acceptance to stop things.
@Panduhr he actually did attend the Oakland reception. My intention on this thread was simply to figure out the whys on why he continued to get correspondence from other schools where he got accepted from, but not UCD.
@liveonboca thanks, that’s the info I was looking for. My kid actually did get the Alumni scholarship email, but nothing else.